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THE WAR.

ALLIES WILL

THE BONGKONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 19TH.

NOT OCCUPY

GERMANY.

AMERICA'S SHARE IN WORLD

RECONSTRUCTION.

VISCOUNT GREY ON THE "FREEDOM OF THE SEAS."

PRESIDENT OF PORTUGAL ASSASSINATED.

SOUTH AFRICA DEMANDS REPATRIATION OF THE GERMANS.

LATEST CABLES

(THROUGH RECTER'S AGENCY.)

PRESIDENT WILSON IN PARIS

AN UNPRECEDENTED WELCOME.

PAR18 December 15th.

Paris

ASPIRATIONS. AMERICAN INTERESTING ROUND TABLE "

BUGGESTIONS

LONDON, December 12th.

PROVISIONAL GOVERNMENT

FORMED.

LONDON. December 16th.

tho His Majesty's deep regrete at assassination of Dr. Pais have been con- veyed to the Portuguese Legation.

The Legation has announced that a Proj visional Government has been formed under the presidency of Senhor Castro Minister of Marine and Foreign Affairs. Parliament is meeting on December 18th.

GERMAN AFFAIRS.

IMPERIAL CONFERENCE OF

SOVIETS

AMSTERDAM, December 15th.

THE PEACE CONFERENCE.

JAPAN'S HEPRESENTATIVES.

TOKIO, December 15th The Japanese Delegates to the Peaco Conference have started for Paris

San Francisco.

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BRITISH DELEGATES.

Losnos, December 16th.

It is expected that Mr. Lloyd George, Mr. Bonar Law, Mr. Balfour and other Ministers will go to Paris on December

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The l'ence Conference will probably

(open at Vormilles on January 1st.

FRENCH REPRESENTATIVES

FORECASTED,

PARIS. December 16th.

1018.

GERMANY TRYING TO INCREASE ALLIES DIFFICULTIES.

"FREEDOM OF THE SEAS."

LEARNED DISSERTATION BY VISCOUNT OREY.

LONDON, December 12th. According to Le Matin the Gersan

LONDON, December 17th. Viscount Grey, speaking at Dewsbury, Delegates at Treves usked not only for an extension of the Armistice, but for an said he saw no reason whatever why the extension of the area occupied by the naval policies of the United States and Allies in order to assist the German Great Britain should not be comparative. authorities."

ly easy, provided the people on both side The Allies refused the latter request, were perfectly frank and did not allow which, it is pointed our, was intended to hisunderstandings to grow up regarding induce the Allies to embark on a much what each meant. wider military scheme with resulting coun plications and difficulties.

ALLIES WILL NOT OCCUPY GERMANY.

A question pinsely comeeted was the question of the feretom of the seas, which {L}} American WIE+HPt. * German b phrase. The Germans adopted it and ased it for her nwn purposes in a sente

The Echo de Pare ulters a WATHIYA [against the German assertions that the and with an intention to which we could

Germany,

It points out that the tiernan Gaven; ment would have much to gain from the difficulties which would result for

I the

larity There was no ured to anticipate any difficulty about an agreement garding meaning until President. Wilson came to disenss it with our Gov- ernment

M. Marcel Hutin forecasts that the Allies contemplate occupying the whole of never have agreed. Hence it unpopu A telegram from Berlin states that the

the Peace Workers Councils in Berlin have elected French plenipotentiariek at seven Majority Socialists, five Indepen¦ Conference will be M. Clemenceau, M. dents and one Intellectant as delegates to] Pichon, Marshal Foch, M. Leon Bour the Imperial Confermave of Soviets,

geois, who is specialist, regarding the Lengue of Nations, also M. Tardieu of thự Commission Tot Franco-American

elations.

The Soldiers' Councils in Berlin have elected on. Majority Socialists and two Independents and are unanimously pro testing against the summoning of the

The Quarterly Review and Ionad Table | Reichstag as terasos, and demanding that the United Staice should the President of the Reichstag be called that take her full share, and accept equal tu recount, responsibilities for the right management! of the new world order after the war

GERMANY AND THE EX-KAISER.

COPENHAVEN, December 16th.

AERIAL PROGRESS.

COMING WONDERS IN THE AIR,

LONDON, December 12th. The Civil Aerial Transport Commitice! states that in the immediate future thei M Hetve, interviewed by the l'olitiken's commercial airship will offer great adván- It proposes that America should become In definite trustee of civilization in the correspondent, said that the Germanages over the aeroplane, particularly redented enthusiasan Bewa rapturously. Middle East, 'and definitely undertake a Government had taken no decision regard-concerning pasengers, where comfort, ease of navigation and safety are vital ofing the extradition of the Kaiser.

He contended that the Government was considerations. powerful and able to maintain order:

A Havas message says President Wilson's arrival yesterday was marked with scenes of unpres

welcomed

Russia.

Paris truly vowed her expresleading part in the reconstruction son of the ties binding the two greatest Repubs No hond of a foreign State ever received such a reception.

The Round Table thinks that a detach

Allies

FRENCH DEMOBILISATION. OVER A MILLION BY FEBRUARY

Panas. December 15th

the

A Havas inessage says: The Under Secretary for Deinolalisa tion stated that 1,200,000 men would be sent home before February

OBITUARY.

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Viscount Grey,

said: cant insing. i meant the freedom of the seas in peace-time, we agreed.

The United States had some rule for- Indding foreign ships to carry goods be tween the United States and the Philip- pines. Home other countries had a simi- far rule.

War We never had such a rule ought to receive a little more recognition than we da, for the fact is we never used the British Navad power in pete time to make the use of the sens easier for our selves without making it simultaneously easier for others on the sane tofnis.

LORD EDWARD CECIL.

LONDON, December 18h. The deuth is announced of Lord Edward

If it was a question of the freedom of (Veril.

the sene iuwar time, Viscount Grey point.. Hard Edword evil, R.CM.G.. D.S.0.

Financial Adviser Bad the Egyptianed out that the United States rg operated

Airships now exist with a range of over

Wan

At mid-day. President Wilson was thement of the United States would render therefore they were entitled to recognition | 4,000 miles ni a speed of 78 miles for hour, Government in 1912. He served with the

guest at a luncheon at the Elyser, when President Poineare said that peace imusl be a reparation of the past, and a guar antee against the perils of the fature,

President Wilson's first publie Hier- ane in Paris embodied the thought of as

civilization gurameed peace which nil

BW Airs.

THE FINAL SETTLEMENT OF

188UES After expressing his horror at the ruin wrought by the brutal enemy, he said appreciate the necessity of such action, in the final settlement of the issues of the war, us will not only robuke such acts

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GERMANY POWERLESS TO TAKE UP ARMS.

her an ideal rustodian of the Dardanellen by the Entente.

autonomy of and a preserver of the Armenin, Arabia and Persia, while ber

would vasi. Jewish population ominently fit to her protect Palestine.

Her position between ludia and Europe would remove all British objections to the necessary irrigation and railway develop Bents of these regions.

He repudiated the idea prevalent France that Germany is still capable taking up arms,

but, by running engines slower, the maxi- mum range is 8,000 miles.

is

Under the first speed, Cape Town into day serially only over three days from of Southampton, while this ship could fly the Atlantic pasange and return without a stop.

HERR LEDEBOUR DISAGREES, AMSTERDAM, December 15th

that

A telegram from Geneva states.

LATER.

in making the blockade compirte, and Dongola Expeditionary Force, and, after

King without such co-operation we might have accompanying a special mission Monelik of Abyssinia, served through the lost the war. Egyptian campaign of 18 and the Her War in 1900, some time be held the appointment of Under Secretary and Under Secretary of Finance.]

BELGIUM AND HOLLAND. A VEILED THREAT TO THE DUTCH.

War

The Cotamittee points out that in the

BRUSSELS, December 18th. future the airship will soon develop a

The Belgian Government has notified Holland that war material, provisions and

It was imposible that the United States should now take up the line that if we had again to deal with Germany thi blockade cannot be allowed. That would It stultify everything done in this war. was an insult to suggest that the United States would, in the future, advocate any course inconsistent with the complex blockade of an offending power.

Probably

aiden waa President Wilson secured for any nation observing the con- vention of the League of Nations, and denied

nation breaking that COVERALL so, then the League of Nations was the solution of the whole question.

Moreover, says the Hound Table, she has Herr kedvbour has withdrawn from the speed of 100 miles per hour and will be the capital for these works, while Great Independent Socialist Party, owing to his fitted with ample salons and state-rooms, military workers from France and Eug that the Treedom of the sea should be

Britain would be hard pressed to find enough the for vast territories she already controls.

If America undertook this task, sho could do more for the reconstruction of

of terror and spolation, but will nake Russia from the Black Sea than from the

men everywhere aware that they such acts) Pacific alone.

cannot be ventored apon without a cer

tainty of just purishment."

The French Press notes that the whole problem of peace conditions is in such a

sentence

MEMORABLE SCENES IN PARIS.

THE NAVY OF 1925.

WASHINGTON. December 14th. Addressing the Naval Committee of the of Representatives, Admiral House

disagreeing with the Party's attitude to ward the German Cabinet.

A SECRET CROWN COUNCIL AT POTSDAM ↑

Padova

AMSTERDAM, December 15th.

A selegram from Berlin states that Herr How has stated that secret docianente in

the German Foreign Offies do not confirm the existence of a secret Crown Council at Potsdam.

The first portion of the documents deal- Badteer of the General Board of the ing with the events up to the German Navy, urged the granting of appropria-invasion of Belgium will be published

Ho declared that if America had fought the present war alone her lack of ships would have proved fatal.

NEW SEAMEN'S COUNCIL AT

HAMBURG. COPENBAUEN, December 16th.

A new Seamens' Council has been form-

tions sufficient to make the American shortly. LONDON. December 19th. President Wilkost in the guest of France, Navy, in 1925, as large as any other, whose sentiment and respect for the chief representative and the spokesman of the American people shows her intense grati. tude for the decisive part which America,

and firm for every American soldier transported under the President's is 1841 guidance, played in the work of crushing overseas in British ships. German militarisio.

It is significant that the President will visit (be Front and the devastated regions. There could be no better preparation for the Peace Conference than seeing the ruzed villages, the demolished factories,! the desolate wastes, gathering information

of the Germans' inhumanity.

Reprisals for the wrongs committed and vindication, the right to safeguard peace the time for these was coming,

CITIZEN OF PARIS."

The Paris City Council, amid enthusias

ti cheering, yesterday, conferred

will be able to remain in the air for over

a neck.

with a lift to the roof garden. These land would be brought to Belgium is the Scheldt. They say that Holland conuot cbject in view of the Dutch permission to the retreating Germans to traverso Lim- burg.

AEROPLANE FLIGHT TO INDIA. PARIS, December 15th.

A Havus message says:— The British aeroplano which left Ips wich on a flight to Karachi, India, arriv cd at Le Bourget yesterday.

The journey may be made

stages.

Ад

DISTRESS IN INDIA. GOVERNMENT TAKING RELIEF MEASURES.

DELHI, December 12th.

In a speech, the Viceroy stated that | scarcity and distress were anticipated in The Government many areas in India.

KARACHI REACHED.

LONDON, December 12th. Major-General Balmond bae arrived in Karachi from Cairo, by Bandley Page were taking relief mensures. scroplane, to confer with the Indian

THE TURKISH ARMISTICE. Government upon the establishment of in

SAID PASHA TO SURRENDER. aerial service to ludia.

LONDON. December 13th. Reuter learns that Baid Pasha, com-

The acroplane employed flew from Eug-

W Any

FAR EASTERN CABLE

NEWS.

{BY COURTESY OF THE "CAURE NOW SAN TO."]

THE FORCES IN THE TWO KWANGS.

Shum Chun-huen has reported in the Peking Government that there are five civisions, or 174 regiments, of troops in Kwangtung, and Luk Wing-ting has re- ported that there are three divisions, or 148 regiments, in Kwangsi.

BZCHUEN AND TIBET

An armistice has been signed between

America would pay Great Britain £101ed in Hamburg. It demands the control land to Egypt, thence via Caira tomander of the Turkish troops operating Szechuen and Tibet for one year.

SOUTH AFRICA AND THE GERMANS.

ALIEN

REPATRIATION OF

ENEMIES DEMANDED.

MARITZBURG, December 12th.

A crowded and very enthusiastic meet-

entire Mercantile Fleet and of the threatens to sink every ship unless all its

demands are met.

Further rioting is reported at Hamburg wing to the refussi of the British to negoliate with the Seamens' Council.

GENERAL SMUTS RESIGNS.

LONDON, December 16th.

Baghdad. The journey from Cairo to Karachi, 2,848 miles, occupied 38, house of actual dying time. Major-General

in the Aden Hinterland, and his Staff, are surrendering.

Salmond is General DANISH NAVAL DISASTER. Officer Commanding, the Royal Air Force TORPEDO-BOAT STRIKES A MINE. in the Middle East.

He will continue his flight to Dolbi, which he is undeftaking in the ordinary course of his serial duty. He does not

THE EX-AUSTRIAN EMPEROR FROM KING TO CANDIDATE.

ing passed a resolution demanding the ADAILY EXPRESS" STATEMENT. uttempt to break records. repatriation of the interned enemies, punishment for ill-treatment of Allied war prisoners, and the retention of the

ex-German colonies.

KIMBERLEY, December 12th.

A mass meeting passed a resolution re-

on questing the Imperial Government

Marshal Joffre aid that France was grateful for what President Wilson can

to

President Wilson the title of "Citizen of demand the punishment of all persons,

Paris."

from the highest to the lowest, who wore responsible for the inhuman treatment to Allied prisonera. The meeting also de manded that the Union Government still do. Thousands of Frenchmen were should repatriate all interned enemies. spared by the United States' entry into

PRESIDENT OF PORTUGAL ABBASSINATED. INFURIATED CROWD LYNCHES MURDERER.

the war.

President Wilson. in reply to M. Stephen Pichon's address of welcome at “Break anid that it was a privilega to come to France and contribute to a pençe enabling France to again move 4951

onward path of progress.

LISBON, December 15th.

The Daily Express states that General Smuts has resigned from the War Cabinet because the war is ended.

General Smuts was offered and declined the Palestine Command before. Bir Edmund Allenby.

THE GENERAL ELECTION.

WOMENS AND BOLDIERS' VOTE.

LONDON, December 16th. Apart from the strength of the womens' vete, the uncertainty of the soldiers' vote makes it impossible to forecast indivi.

dual results.

The sullliers of Britain polled strongly,

The President, Dr. Bidonio Pain, Was The returning officers received sacks o

the assassinated at midnight, while going to ballot papers from camps prior to Dec..

On his arrival this morning magnificent Paris never viewed such crowils, who

a railway station on his way to Oporto.

Three revolver bullets hit Dr. Pais. The infuriated crowd, Tynebesk the

Basassin.

Dr. Fais died at an ambulantes station. reclaimed the vinitor with indescribable | Dr. Pais who was the leader of the revuly Bon of Dreanfber, 1917, was elected Presi

14th and the soldiers still have a few days to vote; hence the candidates most ured of local triumph admit that the soldiers may upset their calculations.

***COPENHAGEN, December 16th.

BTOCKHOLM, December 15th.

A Danish torpedo-boat struck a mine. Seven were killed and four wounded.

AMERICA'S CORN YIELD. SMALLEST FOR FIVE YEARS.

NEW YORK, December 13th. It is officially announced that the corn

EARLIER CABLES.

A telegram from Vienna says that ex-yield is the mallest for the last five years. Emperor Kacl intends to be a candidato at the forthcoming elections for the Austrian National Assembly. DEMOCRATIC CABINET IN

BULGARIA,

SOME IMPORTANT INNOVATIONS.]

Roril, December 17th.

WAR HISTORY. HOW GERMANY BULLIED AUSTRIA

THE ALLIES AND THE CHINESE PEACE CONFERENCE.

The Allied Ministers will depute the Allied Consuls in the place where the Chinese Pence Conference is held watch the negotiations.

PRO-GERMANS DEPART.

to

The Dutch and Danish Ministers haves left Peking for home.

CANTON NEWS.

[BY COURTESY OF THE "CHUNG AGOI BAN KO."}

CANDUN, December 17th,

CANDON-MACAO, RAILWAY.

A merchant has requested the Military Government to allow him to constract a railway between Centon and Macao. Ho states that he has formed a syndicated t with a capital of two million dollars." He has been directed to comply with the New Youx, December 19th, preliminary regulations of the Chinese An Associated Press Correspondent in-and Portuguese authorities, terviewed Count Czernin at Vienna when The construction the railway between Count Cornin said that Austria in 1917 Yeung-kong and Yan-ping, which was in being had made desperate efforts to got out of commenced some months ago, A new Democratic Cabinet has been the war even to the extent of offering interrupted by the Bawning Railway Galicia, the richest coal and oil province Company on the ground that it adversely formed, with M. Theodoroff as Premier of the Empire, to Germany, if the latter affects their line. The magistrates of the and Foreign Minister, including a would surrender Alsace Lorraine, but Banning and Yan-ping districts have Civilian War Minister, which is an im- portant Dodberatio innovation.

THE ARMISTICE, BRITISH

NING.

COPENHAGEN, December 16th. telegram from Kiel states that it is reported that Admiral Browning has in- timated tint Germany must be prepared

Germany: rejected this propom).

General von Ludendorf was oven will been reguested to mediate in the matter ing to declare war against Austria, if the Jalter made a separato peace.

THE SILVER MARKET.

CANTON TRADE.

Business in vory'dull indeed, and it feared that a large number of shups will be driven to bankruptcy. “KEHABILITATION OF BANK-NOTER.

LONDON, December 19th.

The Civil Governor called a number of Montags's report states that the tone of the principal merchants to his office yer the silver market is good. There was'n fall terday to consult them as to the best means in the price of 5/16ths of a penny singe of rehabilitating the bank-notes. It wa December 8th, due to the reduction in the decided to form a syndicates, with a capit

of wo million dollars to buy up the note rates of insurance from America.

An Order-in-Council removes the mat a discount and the pub them to enthusiasm. President, Wilson miiled his dent in April, 1918. He was at one time The proxy voting on December 14th on for the British occupation of Heligoland bargo on the export of articles wholly market at their face value. It is unid them acknowledgment during the long run Profemor of Anthematies at the University behalf of tailors and soldiere shrond in unless the naval terms of the Armistice or partly composed of ellver. This will one million dollars were raised se

doubtless bond increase the trade, de-meeting, and the Governor lins orders of Chimla, and win yoard later, wan,

innotier meeting to be held on Friday, apparently a failure. 'from the station 10 Prince Murat's house. Purtugunes Minister at Berlin.)]

mand for silver in England,

aro curried out.